“The heavy rains that descended on Ottawa this past week are what they used to call a one-in-100-year” storm, the kind of disaster that could catch any of us off-guard” Ottawa Citizen.
Recent incidences of flooding in Canada and particularly in the Ottawa region has residents and businesses looking for helpful storm water management solutions.
Robert Heller, executive director for the Canadian Water and Waste Water Association and Stephanie Cairns, director of cities and communities for Smart Prosperity Institute, at the University of Ottawa recently wrote an article about what it would take to flood proof our cities.
